I have to admit I dislike the concept of a "kanji of the day" sort of thing, because that only amounts to 365.25 kanji a year (not a very good rate), and that's assuming you memorize every single one of them. Not a very efficient way to study. But then, of course, 1 kanji a day is better than 0 kanji a day...

Kef is probably right about a kanji a day since every learn-a-word/historical fact/puzzle-a-day paper calendar I've bought still has much of January and all of February on intact. However, I think ANY exposure to a new kanji can help the student become more familiar with it.

I have a couple of those "Kanji a day" calendars barely used as well.It wasn't until I decided to burn through one as practice paper for reviewing Kanji that I made a dent in one.This month I've learnt ( or at least brought back into active memory ) many many more than 30 Kanji.

Any kanji learning method that involves going sequentially through a list of kanji and just studying readings and meanings will fail. It's like trying to learn English by picking up a dictionary and starting at A.

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Yudan Taiteki wrote:It's like trying to learn English by picking up a dictionary and starting at A.

Malcolm X actually did that when he was in prison (although he was a native speaker of English). He said that the image of the aardvark on the first page was permanently burned into his brain as a result.

furrykef wrote:I have to admit I dislike the concept of a "kanji of the day" sort of thing, because that only amounts to 365.25 kanji a year (not a very good rate), and that's assuming you memorize every single one of them. Not a very efficient way to study.

I would venture that the point of word/kanji a day calendars etc. isn't for you to try and learn all the words/kanji or even make any significant improvements in your vocab, but instead just to make sure you spend at least a short time each day thinking about the language and possibly work as an incentive/reminder to do some actual study when you can. That's how I've always thought of them anyway.

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